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Re:Unix's special way of marking login shells goes back to V... by Zardoz84 on Sunday December 11, 2022 @01:25PM (#33945826)
Perhaps I wrong, but FAT and CP/M filesystems, aren't the same. CP/M filesystem never had directories. When the original FAT even predates QDOS as was used by Microsoft on his BASIC in 1977
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Re:Unix's special way of marking login shells goes back to V... by kragen on Sunday December 11, 2022 @04:57PM (#33948005)
hmm, i thought fat came from cp/m, not basic-80, but it looks like i was wrong about that

thanks for the correction

https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=25878&seqNu...

fat didn't have subdirectories in qdos or ms-dos pre-2 either

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